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Dr. Nadine Le Bris is a deep-sea ecologist, with an interdisciplinary  expertise at the interface of marine chemistry, biogeochemistry and ecology. Her current research focuses on the sensitivity of deep-sea ecosystems to environmental dynamics, under multiple natural and anthropogenic influences. She attended more than 20 research cruises with manned submersibles and ROVs on hydrothermal vents and … Continued

Colin Devey is Professor of Oceanic Volcanism in the Research Division “Dynamics of the Seafloor” at Geomar, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, a position he has held since 2004. He was Deputy Director of Geomar from 2008 to 2011. From 1998 to 2004 he was Professor for “Petrology of the Ocean Crust” at … Continued

Mandar Chitre is currently the Head of the ARL at Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI) and an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining the ARL in 2003, he headed the technology division for a Singapore based telecommunication software company for … Continued

Dr. Stace Beaulieu is a Senior Research Specialist in the Biology Department  at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Her specialty is  deep-sea benthic invertebrates, including surveying and sampling to assess biodiversity, distribution, and abundance. She previously served as coordinator of the InterRidge (2007-2009) and Ridge 2000 (2010-2012) program offices and currently coordinates WHOI’s Ocean Informatics  initiative. … Continued

Ian graduated from Boston Latin School in the class of 2013. He is currently an undergraduate marine physical sciences student at the University of Maine with an earth sciences minor. At Univervisty of Maine Ian works in the ocean operations laboratory as a buoy technician for the NERACOOS array in the Gulf of Maine. He … Continued

Ana Clavere-Graciette is a second year PhD student in Dr. Montoya’s lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. She is currently studying the impact of releases of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico at natural hydrocarbon seeps using nitrogen and carbon stable isotopes. Her work focuses on the incorporation of … Continued

Dr. Lam Nguyen-Ngoc began his university career at the National University of Ho Chi Minh City, receiving a B.Sc. in Biology in 1979 after the reunification of Viet Nam . He pursued graduate studies in Denmark, earning an M.Sc. in Marine Sciences from Aarhus University and a Ph.D. in Phycology from Copenhagen University. Lam has … Continued

Caroline Reddy is a Research Technician who joined the Montoya lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology in early 2016. Her role currently focuses on organizing research cruises for the lab and analyzing samples of zooplankton via mass spectrometry. This will be her very first research cruise, and she is excited to take part. Caroline … Continued